Hitachi-LG Unveil Next Generation Hybrid Optical Drive

Hitachi-LG has unveiled it next generation hybrid optical drives with flash-based storage. The new hybrid drives use use Micron’s 25nm NAND flash memory in 16GB, 32GB, 64GB capacities and have been combined with DVD and BLu-Ray players.

The next generation drives have been designed with laptops in mind allowing space savings where only one drive slot is available, allowing PC makers to bring out optical-drive-equipped systems with only one drive.